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PHOENIX (BP)–The night before their historic Super Bowl upset of the New England Patriots, the New York Giants heard from Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary at their team chapel service about putting God first in all they do.Singletary, who spoke to two dozen players and coaches at the Giants’ team hotel late Saturday, won a Super Bowl title in his one and only appearance as a member of the Chicago Bears. In an interview prior to the chapel, Singletary said he planned to tell the players that, regardless of the outcome of Super Bowl XLII, they must keep God…
When Kenny Luck and his 11-year old son jumped off a 30-foot cliff into a pool of water on a Mexican vacation it was pretty exciting, a real adrenalin rush. But then his seven-year old daughter said she wanted to do it too.He thought that once he got her to the top of the cliff she would look out over the edge and change her mind. She didn’t. Looking down at his daughter in her goggles and her cute little swimsuit he said, "Are you sure?" He asked several times, and she kept saying yes, she was sure. So he…
Now, the story of a Wisconsin National Guard officer who saw combat in Iraq but who also discovered a young Iraqi orphan crippled with cerebral palsy — a 10-year-old boy who faced a life of loneliness and suffering. After his tour of duty, Captain Scott Southworth returned home to Wisconsin but could not forget about the boy named Ala’a.aRead more of this story.
COMMENTARYChristian conservatives are often lambasted these days for fixating on abortion and homosexuality, as if we have sexual hang-ups. Tony Campolo has said for years that the Religious Right has “hijacked” the Christian faith over such issues. Yesterday at the National Cathedral, Rick Warren, who said the country needs liberals and conservatives, lamented that Christians still are viewed as only “right wing.” Read more of this commentary.
Ever since phrases such as "values voters" and "God Gap" were coined during the 2004 presidential election, authors from the spiritual and political left, right and center have been writing about faith and politics. Now, in time for the 2008 campaign, there’s a raft of new titles by preachers, politicians, pollsters and partisans, historians, sociologists, journalists and more.Read more of this story.
Milwaukee contemporary Christian music station WFZH-FM (105.3), known as "The Fish," is being sold by Salem Communications Corp. to a nonprofit foundation that plans to carry "Christian-based family-oriented programming." The Educational Media Foundation of Rocklin, Calif., will pay $8 million to buy the station from Camarillo, Calif.-based Salem (NASDAQ: SALM), according to a filing Monday with the Federal Communications Commission.Read more >>
COMMENTARYIN his State of the Union address Monday evening, President Bush asked Congress to permanently extend the federal laws permitting religious nonprofit organizations to compete for federal grants.Seven years ago this week, Mr. Bush started his faith-based initiative. He promised to build on these “charitable choice” laws, which were begat by bipartisan compromises between President Bill Clinton and Senator John Ashcroft. “Government cannot be replaced by charities,” Mr. Bush declared, “but it should welcome them as partners, instead of resenting them as rivals.”Read more of this commentary.
COMMENTARYIn 1966 my young family and I moved into a southern Illinois town where I became pastor of one of those ubiquitous First Baptist Churches you see everywhere. It was a time of serious racial tension in America, and that tension was palpable in our new neighborhood.There was only one African-American church in our community, and its pastor and I cultivated a friendship. Read more of this commentary.
NEWS RELEASE Denver, Colo., January 24, 2008 – Promise Keepers (PK), the international ministry to men, will hold its high energy men’s conferences in seven cities in 2008, marking 18 years of life-transforming events in sports arenas across the United States. The theme for the gatherings is “Manhood ’08: Let the Truth Be Told.”Read more of this story.
PULLMAN, Wash. (BP)–Tony Bennett asks a lot of questions.When he attended his first Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp in Colorado as a teenager, it sparked a spiritual curiosity that eventually led to his salvation. Former Nebraska football coaching icon Tom Osborne was the keynote speaker, and Bennett, raised in a Catholic church, took a laundry list of questions back to the small-group follow-up sessions.Read more of this story.